Fallout: New Vegas

[pilonv1]

I think I'm about done with this game. There's very few locations I haven't found, the only quests I have left are the main ones and the only locations I haven't visited are some of the Vaults and a few mines. I'm sitting now at about 53 hours and there's no chance anything else gets GOTY for me.

It's a bit sad now I can one shot Cazadors and Deathclaws

[fistfulofmetal]

Just beat it. Decent end.

I decided to:

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Go with an independent New Vegas. I spared the life of Lanius and also Oliver as well. I get the feeling the last bit of dialogue between you and Yes Man in this ending will lead into DLC.

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Better game than Fallout 3. Better quests, better dialogue, better gameplay, better overall game world.

Overall: 9/10

[pilonv1]

Finished it. I really enjoyed the ending, because it wrapped up the lose ends for the quests I completed (basically all of them).

One thing annoyed me

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I went with an independant New Vegas, which said was more stable and secure. Yet the Followers cried about how it was more violent than ever and they didn't have enough supplies.

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Also, one of the funniest scenes in the game:

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Getting Yes Man to throw Oliver off the Hoover Dam

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Just a perfect ending.

[archie4208]

I got this game for $30 at D2D this weekend and am enjoying it.  I haven't read this thread for fear of spoilers, but I was wondering if it is possible to do a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow run like this?

[Bebpo]

nope.

[archie4208]

Blah.  FO2 still remains as the pinnacle of the series.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Just got this, hope its not as buggy as people say

The farther you get into it, the more they become apparent.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Oh it's fun and I had a good time with it but the game will make you want to pull your hair out when/if some of the more annoying bugs start popping up.  If you don't run into any of that crap then Vegas is pretty damn amazing.  There's exponentially more stuff going on in this one than in Fallout 3.

[Stoney Mason]

So I'm going to start playing this again. Do I still need to use that fix with the file that allowed a better frame rate or have they fixed that with the latest updates?

[Eel O'Brian]

it's been fixed, there's a larger patch coming soon that will supposedly fix a ton of other quest bugs and glitches

[Yeti]

I just started playing this yesterday and I'm at Primm. At what point in the game do you get your own house like you can in Megaton in Fallout 3? I have a lot of loot I need to store.

[Great Rumbler]

I just started playing this yesterday and I'm at Primm. At what point in the game do you get your own house like you can in Megaton in Fallout 3? I have a lot of loot I need to store.

In the town where you start out, you can use the robot's house to store your loot.

[Yeti]

I didn't even realize you can go in his house since he's always standing in front of the door.  Good to know though

[Eel O'Brian]

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[Stoney Mason]

About 60% into the game now and hooked for the first time. Took longer than I expected for it to happen. I still think I prefer Fallout 3 but we'll see by the end I guess. I think I like politics and the DC setting area so I prefer that to a Vegas setting. I like the game but there is starting to be this sense of repetition from Bethesda games. I'm starting to feel like I keep playing the same game whether its Morrowind, or Oblivion, or Fallout 3, or Fallout New Vegas.

Not only do they need a new engine desperately but they need to rework some of these mechanics and introduce some new ideas into the mix. Like the sneaking and doing sneaky things stuff is garbage. I did that mission

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where you get evidence that the two groups are working together to try to kill Cass. Great idea but it just feels so silly. All I did was crouch to pickpocket them and then walk around their store and open their safes with the key (WHILE THEY ARE IN THE STORE). Shouldn't somebody stop me from wandering and unlocking stuff in their place. Shouldn't it be a lot cooler than that and more involved or actually stealthy you know. And I didn't even have a high sneak rating.

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[cool breeze]

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no wonder confirmed bachelor worked on Boone

[Yeti]

I took the confirmed bachelor perk too, there have been some hilarious conversations. It's surprising how many people it actually works on. Must be all the radiation haha.

I've had the game crash on me twice now, once I was leaving the dinosaur gift shop at Novac, as it finished loading it brought up a strange yellow screen that looked like those 3-D eye things. Luckily it had autosaved only a few seconds before when I had entered the giftshop through the mouth. The other time it froze in mid-conversation and I lost about half an hour of play time.

[cool breeze]

I wonder how some situations would play out without using confirmed bachelor.  The doctor in Forlorn Hope was flirting with my character big time and calling me buttercup.  Does he become straight if you don't have it?

[Yeti]

Can your Companion characters die of radiation poisoning? I want to explore Vault 34 but I'm afraid Boone will drop dead on me.

Also I think my ED-E My Love quest is glitched. I didn't have enough repair to fix ED-E the first time I came across him so I figured I would just come back once I had leveled up. So in my travels I went to the Novac scrapyard and talked to old lady gibson. After a few more quests I leveled up and was finally able to fix ED-E up. I went back to the scrapyard and after a while of nothing happening I looked on an FAQ of what I was supposed to do, and apparently when you talk to Old Lady Gibson she says a word that triggers a response in ED-E.  But when I talk to her none of those dialogue options are available anymore. I don't have any earlier saves so I can either completely start the game all over or get screwed out of doing that quest. 

[pilonv1]

I had the same issue. Check the fallout wikia and they'll give you some other characters you can use to trigger the event. If you talk to Old Lady Gibson before fixing ED-E it bugs out.

[fistfulofmetal]

Can your Companion characters die of radiation poisoning? I want to explore Vault 34 but I'm afraid Boone will drop dead on me.

No.

[muckhole]

Wound up having to take an unwanted break from the game after all my saves got hit by the "Missing DLC" bug. Patch is due out sometime before the 21st apparently, so hopefully I'll be able to salvage my saves.

Apparently people seem to think that revisiting certain Vaults is the cause of the glitch. I don't know if there's any truth to that, but I can vouch for the fact that it happened to me shortly after going back into a Vault to collect jumpsuits for a sidequest.

[Stoney Mason]

Finished Vault 34 last night. That place was a pain in the ass. 

But the story involving my companion from the brotherhood was pretty cool.

[Stoney Mason]

As a general comment also I will say the side missions are great. I don't know that I think the main plot is so good but the extra quests are excellent and much better than Fallout 3 in that aspect. Especially in how many of them are intertwined.

[Stoney Mason]

Game is so enjoyable in so many aspects and at the very same time so fucking annoying and clunky and broken it makes you want to rage.

There are literally missions that are so poorly setup and confusing that I've had to look at the walk through just to see how I'm supposed to do it properly.

Beyond the Beef is a good mission and good concept completely let down by shit ass scripting and shit instructions. Fucking Obsidian. 

[fistfulofmetal]

the game falls a part during the final conflict. is really sucks a whole bunch.

[Yeti]

The game really sucks about concluding sidemissions. A lot of them seem to end so abruptly with little resolution, and then you go back and check in on the dudes who gave you the mission and they don't even acknowledge that anything happened. I mean, my guy travels into a radioactive hell infested with feral glows and glowing ones so that you can have uncontaminated water to grow your crops, the least you could do is tell a couple of your npcs wandering around aimlessly to utter a new line of dialogue thanking me.

The dialogue of npcs in general kind of annoys me, it is way more repetitive than it should be. I'm pretty sure there are about three voice actors who all say the line "I thought there would be more gambling with this mission" or something along those lines. If you are going to go to the trouble of including three different voices why on earth wouldn't you have them say different things?

[demi]

Did anyone else just take 5 minutes and die of laughter when you lured Jeannie May in front of the dinosaur? I think that moment is better than all of Fallout 3 combined.

[Joe Molotov]

Did anyone else just take 5 minutes and die of laughter when you lured Jeannie May in front of the dinosaur? I think that moment is better than all of Fallout 3 combined.

It's like "Hey, come over here, I got something to show you!"

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[Great Rumbler]

Did anyone else just take 5 minutes and die of laughter when you lured Jeannie May in front of the dinosaur? I think that moment is better than all of Fallout 3 combined.

Yes, that was awesome. 

[demi]

lmao... i couldnt find her, and im like WTF. so i found her walking to the spot, and i follow her up with my beret. then her head just pops like a fuckin cherry. im like... omg.

then i stole that bitches clothes and left her naked.

[Eel O'Brian]

nah, that dude in fo3 who runs out of nowhere screaming for you to take the bomb off him and immediately explodes, then you walk around the corner and there are a gang of raiders laughing about it, that's just as good a moment

[demi]

Doesnt that involve a guy? I find female humilation more entertaining.

[Eel O'Brian]

hahaha!

there's lots of little moments like that in FO3 (king of the ants, that cannibal ghoul clown in the sewers, the raiders beating the living fuck out of that dude to "initiate" him)

jeannie may was a great moment, and i did laugh, but new vegas doesn't have the sheer amount of "wtf did i just see" moments that fo3 did

[demi]

Caravan is super broken... lmao. All you need are 10/9/7 and you can win.

[pilonv1]

Did anyone else just take 5 minutes and die of laughter when you lured Jeannie May in front of the dinosaur? I think that moment is better than all of Fallout 3 combined.

To top it off you can go in and brag to the Dinosaur shop guy after. One of my favourite New Vegas moments.

[Herr Mafflard]

PC patch is out, time get back into this

Fallout: New Vegas v1.2

This update addresses issues with the following areas:

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-   Pip-Boy Interface
-   Repair Menu
-   Caravan
-   Weapons and Weapon Mods
-   Hardcore Mode
-   Perks
-   Skills
-   Crafting Recipes
-   Crafting Menu
-   Mojave Express
-   Chems/Addiction
-   Doctors
-   Vendors
-   PreOrder DLC Items
-   Reputation System
-   Radio Stations
-   Companion fixes
-   Companion Quests

And fixes for the following quests:

-   Ain’t That a Kick in the Head
-   By a Campfire on The Trail
-   They Went That-a-Way
-   My Kind of Town
-   Boulder City Showdown
-   Ring a Ding Ding!
-   King’s Gambit
-   For The Republic, Part 2
-   Render Unto Caesar
-   Et Tumor, Brute?
-   The House Always Wins
-   Wild Card
-   Beyond the Beef
-   GI Blues
-   How Little We Know
-   Oh My Papa
-   Still In The Dark
-   You’ll Know It When It Happens
-   Arizona Killer
-   Eureka!
-   Veni, Vidi, Vici
-   All or Nothing
-   No Gods, No Masters
-   Birds of a Feather
-   I Put A Spell On you
-   Come Fly With Me
-   That Lucky Old Sun
-   Don’t Make a Beggar of Me
-   The White Wash
-   Ghost Town Gunfight
-   Restoring Hope
-   Bleed Me Dry
-   Aba Daba Honeymoon
-   Tend To Your Business
-   Wang Dang Atomic Tango
-   Flags of Our Foul-Ups
-   Debt Collector
-   Talent Pool
-   Left My Heart
-   Someone To Watch Over Me
-   Hard Luck Blues

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[brawndolicious]

About to jump into the 360 version.  Is it playable?

[demi]

Yes. At least, I played it all weekend with zero issue.

[brawndolicious]

Sounds more polished than F3.

[Cormacaroni]

PC heads -

Any recommendations for mods for FO3 GOTY edition? Is Project Beauty worth the hassle?

[Smooth Groove]

I just started playing Fallout 3 recently as well, with a bunch of mods.  The one that probably makes the most impact, is NMC's texture pack: http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=12056

I also installed the high res sky, moon, weapons pack, Brurpo's model mod and Josef Grey's makeup pack.  They were all done very well but you might want to install them one at a time.  I experienced a bunch of crashes to desk but I'm not sure if they were due to the mods since I never played without them. 

[Cormacaroni]

Cheers, will check it out. It crashed the first 3 times I tried to load it, even before trying any mods. Bethesda! I think it was because it didn't like my 2nd monitor though.

[muckhole]

360 patch is up! 

Now let's pray it fixes my corrupted saves.

[cool breeze]

360 exclusive dlc actually looks awesome

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360

wait, I bought this game on PC  :'(

[archie4208]

Is it exclusive exclusive, or timed exclusive?

[Brehvolution]

Patch deets look interesting. Don't know if I can be bothered to start over now.

[Eel O'Brian]

360 exclusive dlc actually looks awesome

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360

wait, I bought this game on PC  :'(

modders will have the assets ripped and the whole thing ported over to pc in a week

[Stoney Mason]

I ran into a weird bug. The game stopped saving for me for some reason.

In these sorts of games I save like a mad man and since it lists like 1000 slots I didn't think it would be a problem. But I started playing again today and for some reason it just wasn't saving the game. It would act like it was doing it but when I tried to load it, the save file I just made wasn't there.

So I went into the directory and just hard deleted a lot of the saves I had.

I won't tell you how many saves I had made. It's embarrassing. 

[Smooth Groove]

It's wise to save often in Fallout or Elder Scrolls and to keep using different slots.  Usually, I just overwrite my saves and keep a couple of them but those games are so buggy that I don't want to risk the chance of losing all my progress to a shitty save. 

[Bebpo]

Is it exclusive exclusive, or timed exclusive?

Timed and rumor is that future DLCs might not be.  Dunno!  I look forward to playing this on PC sometime next year like I'm still looking forward to playing Bioshock 2 DLC whenever they finally port it over.

[pilonv1]

I learnt my lesson with FO3. Going to wait for a bunch of DLC to dive back in. Doing bits and pieces is no fun.

[GilloD]

I ran into a weird bug. The game stopped saving for me for some reason.

In these sorts of games I save like a mad man and since it lists like 1000 slots I didn't think it would be a problem. But I started playing again today and for some reason it just wasn't saving the game. It would act like it was doing it but when I tried to load it, the save file I just made wasn't there.

So I went into the directory and just hard deleted a lot of the saves I had.

I won't tell you how many saves I had made. It's embarrassing. 

I had this prob with Oblivion. What happened was that my system time got reset and since it lists saves chronologically, they just got shoved in the stack somewhere (I had 176 saves. I have gotten better)

[Stoney Mason]

I ran into a weird bug. The game stopped saving for me for some reason.

In these sorts of games I save like a mad man and since it lists like 1000 slots I didn't think it would be a problem. But I started playing again today and for some reason it just wasn't saving the game. It would act like it was doing it but when I tried to load it, the save file I just made wasn't there.

So I went into the directory and just hard deleted a lot of the saves I had.

I won't tell you how many saves I had made. It's embarrassing. 

I had this prob with Oblivion. What happened was that my system time got reset and since it lists saves chronologically, they just got shoved in the stack somewhere (I had 176 saves. I have gotten better)

You know.... that may have been what happened although I could have sworn the total saves number wasn't going up. But maybe I was wrong there. But yeah my date got fucked up on this computer. That was my bad then.

[Cravis]

Whoops. Dead Money is up and they've accidentally got it listed as free.  Get it before it costs space bucks.

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Fallout-New-Vegas-Dead-Money/4325af40-d19c-4c35-86c4-9721f7da0589?cid=majornelson

[demi]

I cant believe I missed that. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Oh well, I havent finished the regular 1000 yet.

[GilloD]

So I snagged this for 360 this week- Saw it in the electronics district in Seoul for about $35 used. Score!

Anyway- I like the setting less than I liked FO3/The East, but it's definitley a better game. Dead Rising 2 was a game that got better by making a lot of macro changes, this is a game that got better through about a zillion tiny tweaks that just make it sing.

Also, the writing is better and the quests are more diverse. The moral quandaries are weirdly more and less dynamic- When choosing a sheriff for Prim, it feels like a gut decision, a real toss up. It's not like GOOD GUY vs EVIL GUY. But the NCR/Legion divide is kind of hilarious- Nice guys stretched thin or a band of merciless raiders destroying the wasteland with their cleansing fire. There's not really a gray area there and that's kind of a bummer.

I wish the Legion had been introduced more gradually- Maybe you hook up with them and their brand of justice is revealed more slowly. Nipton is kind of a slap in the face.

Anyway, it's a really nice look at another part of the Fallout mythos, the setting is really distinct and the game just plays better.

[Stoney Mason]

This fucking game...

My newest bug is that occasionally after combat now the game will suddenly turn black and white. I couldn't figure out how to fix it. I just had to load up an old save where it wasn't already black and white. Fortunately after it did it like 3 or 4 times it seemed to stop doing it after I left the area I was in.

[Yeti]

After the patch, my game will now freeze for about 3 seconds every now and then. Does anyone have any impressions of the DLC? It looks pretty neat.

[Stoney Mason]

I'm on the final mission now.

I don't know. This game is such an obsidian mess. Like if I played this and somehow you could erase from my mind the fact that Obsidian made it and you asked me who made it. I would still guess Obsidian. It's so fundamentally flawed and broken in so many areas. The side quests are great. I'll give them that. And there are lots more guns than there were in Fallout 3.

But the game is just so fucked up. Both scripting wise, and how it executes on the story, or how certain quests are just confusing and weird. I'm not even talking about bugs. It's the actual game. It's just so fucking oddly designed.

I don't know. I hate to be Debbie Downer but for everything this game does right it does something equally stupid or weird to balance it out. I'm at about 60 hours. Level 29. And this is probably the most time I've ever put into a game that I have completely mixed feelings about. Like I'm literally dragging myself across the finish line. I don't give a shit about this stuff going on. I don't think they told a very cohesive integrated story. But like I said I did enjoy a lot of the quest storylines and their individual stories